Installing and Configuring Git

For details about the clients supported by Repo and the installation guide link, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Compatible Git clients
Client Name	OS	Official Installation Guide Link
Git client	Windows	Windows Git Client Installation Guide
	Linux	Linux Git Client Installation Guide
	Mac	Mac Git Client Installation Guide
TortoiseGit	Windows	Windows TortoiseGit Client Installation Guide

After installing the Windows Git client, configure the user name and email address. Enter the following command in Git Bash:

git config --global user.name your username
git config  --global user.email your_email_address

Currently, CodeArts Repo cannot be managed using GitHub desktop.
The username can contain letters, digits, and common characters, but cannot contain characters no more than 32 in the ASCII code table. It cannot start or end with ., : ; < > " \\ and \. Any of the preceding characters appears at the beginning or end will be ignored. To facilitate management, you can set this parameter to the username of CodeArts Repo.
CodeArts Repo supports TLS1.2 and TLS1.3. If Git is of the latest version, run the following command to specify the TLS protocol version: In the preceding command, test.com is the domain name for Git upload/download in CodeArts Repo, and tls1_2 indicates that the TLS protocol version is TLS1.2. For details about different Git client solutions, see TLS protocol versions compatible with CodeArts Repo.
```
openssl s_client -connect test.com:443 -tls1_2
```

Parent topic: Environment and Personal Settings